Improvement in columnar mattress



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LettersPatent N 103,096, datedll'fay` 1'I7,`18''0;l antedated May 3, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN }OLUMNAR MATTRESS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patentand making part of the same.

T, u'wiom may` Ommen any of the ordinary materials, according to the qual- 1 Be it known that I, HAMILTON E. SMITH, of New ity of the mattress to be formed. York, inthe county of" New York and State oi' New For ordinary purposes I prefer to use a coarser ma- York, have invented `a lnew and useful Improvement terial for: Ithe lower parts of the columns, using a 'lnerV in Columnar Mattress; and I do hereby declare that material for the middle parts, and a still finer material ythe following is a full, clear, and exact.V description for thel upper or top parts. l thereof, which will* enable others skilled in the at'to The .mattress lmay be made' in one piece, or in two makerand use the same, 4reference being had to the or more pieces or sections, asmay be desired.

accompanying drawings forming part of'this speei'if The whole mattress', or the parts, when thev matcationgu Y i i i tres's-isfmade in sections, may be surrounded with a Eigure l is a `top'Qview-'of `my improved mattress. bandequal in breadth to the length of the columns i Figure 2 is `a detail sectional view of Athe same, B, and ysecured lto said columns by tufting, the eords taken through the line fx az, fig. 1. passing .transversely through said columns, as indi- Similar letters .of referenceindicate.correspomling cated in the drawings. parts. r i f By this construction there will be left air-spaces be-` My intention Irelates Wto improvements in mattween the columns, to keep the mattress thoroughly l tresses, and consists? in `oo nstructi-ng a mattress in ventilated, and, consequently, always clean and sweet.

columns, so. that the air may pass through it freely, VHaving thus describedmy invention,- it atthe same time retaining the elasticity of those Ielaiml as new and desreto secureby Letters Patconstructed Yin. the ordinary Vmanner. ent- A represents the bedsteady-the bottom of which, An improved mattress, made in columns placed i, that the mattress rests upon, may be slats or wi'reside by side'j'u ,Vertical positions, asherein shown and gauze or `net-work, which must be open, to allow the described, and for the purpose set forth.

air toA pass through freely, need net be elastio, and The above specification of my invention signed by should be so eloseas to fully support the mattress. me' this 14th day of October. 1869.

w `B is the mattress,'consisting of a. suioient number v HAMILTON E. SMITH. l of small bags or columns, arranged side by side, as

, shown in figs. 1 and 2-.` `Witnesses:A

ing, of' any desiredfineness, and maybe` stuffed with JAMES T. GRAHAM. 

